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CNI AND RICE UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCE MAJOR ADVANCEMENT IN COMMERCIALIZATION OF CARBON NANOTECHNOLOGY.
Advanced Materials & Composites News, October, 2000
The development of single-wall carbon nanotubes (Bucky[TM]tubes) has moved a major step closer to commercialization, from electronics to medicine, Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc. (CNI) and Rice University in Houston announced on 5 October. Based in Houston, CNI was founded earlier this year by Dr.
Richard E. Smalley, the Nobel Prize winner who discovered the fullerene technology on which carbon nanotubes are based, and Dr. Bob G. Gower, former chairman and CEO of Lyondell Chemical Company. CNI has signed a letter of intent with Rice University granting CNI an exclusive license for a broad array of Buckytube-related technology. This technology was developed over the past several years under the direction of Dr. Smalley, who is director of the Center for...
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